IRS Seeks New Enterprise File Storage System
Summary
The Internal Revenue Service is looking to modernize its enterprise file storage system, according to a request for information published on Monday. The IRS EFS solution improves and provides additional capabilities to the IRS Enterprise Electronic Fax system, which allows “the processing, storage and retrieval of document images that have been captured utilizing EEFax.” EFS and EEFax jointly provide an automated and paperless storage solution. The new EFS system should “protect against unauthorized access to systems and data to include those measures necessary to detect, document and counter such threats and incidents.” It must also reduce the risk of authorized users being denied services and unauthorized users being given services, while detecting, documenting and countering these threats. Additionally, the new EFS solution must: • Be Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP, authorized on a moderate or high Federal Information Processing Standards, or FIPS, 199 level or to be used within the current IRS environment or current cloud solution. For example, the IRS asks for information regarding: • The company’s experience providing computation software products for large, complex and diverse work.